India's economic success story of the 2000s was powered by robust hiring in the information technology (IT)/IT enabled services sector, led by advancement in telecommunications and laissez-faire policy. It is a matter of deep concern therefore, that the booming IT majors of today feel their business model has changed. They use a mysterious palliative "non-linearity" to describe this phenomenon, which in non-geek means "we don't need too many new hires." This "non-linearity" has coincided precisely, and rather inconveniently, with a historic increase in the number of youngsters entering India's workforce. With one white collar job creating ten brown-collar jobs, the impact of white-collar joblessness on law and order is easily foreseeable. Perhaps the home ministry should step up its creation of khaki-collar jobs.
Rohan Soares Mumbai
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